Testing Assumptions
January 23rd, 2010My SOP has been to shop at Food Lion regularly but to make regular (say, monthly) runs to Target for cleaning supplies, crackling oat bran, and altoids. Lately I have started to slip…I’ll just pick up dish detergent at FL…too lazy to go to T…
It got to the point where I started to get curious. Was Target really any cheaper? After all, Food Lion is a fairly inexpensive grocery store…can’t I cut out Target altogether?
So this morning after picking up my vitamin D prescription (it appears I’m deficient…not enough sun, shockingly, but that’s ok…a common side affect of vitamin D pills is weight loss) I meandered around Target, writing down the costs of items that I frequently buy: Bounty select-a-size paper towels, laundry detergent, fantastik, (ahem) feminine accessories, liquid soap refill, shaving cream, crackling oat bran, Mott’s 6-pack of cinnamon apple sauce, Lysol toilet bowl cleaner, tinfoil, Angel Soft toilet paper, and tostitos.
Turns out that I would have spent 21% more had I bought those items at Food Lion and not at Target. And four items at FL were on sale, compared to one at T. This is not to say that everything at Target was cheaper, but the things that were cheaper tended to be significantly cheaper.
Conclusion? I will go to Target for my cleaning supplies.
TMI!!!!!!!
I’ve been taking prescription vitamin D for several years now–it helps a lot! I have not ever heard that weight loss is a side effect, however. I love Target! It took me a few years to come around–I used to think they were pretentious or something. However, we became increasingly disillusioned with our local Wal-Mart (eventually vowing never to go again), and I just can’t get behind K-Mart. So we became Target shoppers. We had to travel 10 minutes either north or south to find one. However, in July, they opened a Target 1.8 miles from our house! I couldn’t be happier. And since it is attached to our Wegmans, we no longer have to debate, when needing just one or two “cleaning supply”-type items, whether we should pay more while at Wegmans or drive the 10 minutes to Target. Now we can hit both with one stop! BTW, I did not need to know what brand of TP you prefer…
I did kind of specify the brand of TP to be obnoxious…your comment made me laugh!